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Thursday, February 03, 2005

Jacques-Yves Cousteau published his The Silent World. Monsieur Cousteau is well known for his explorations of the sea world, especially under water, using oxygen tanks and SCUBA. Cousteau was born in 1910, in St. Andry' de Cubzac He served in the French Navy, where he learned to be a diver.

In 1953, Ymile Gagnan and he developed the Aqua-Lung, the world's first known "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus," which soon became known by the acronym SCUBA.

It's the birthday of the novelist Paul Auster, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947. He is well known to some listeners of the NPR literary programme which Georgia listeners in the Savannah area hear on Sunday late evenings.

In 1820, John Keats, the lyric English poet, fell deathly ill. He attended school at Enfield, where he began his translation of the Aeneid. Read more about him at the Literature Network.

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.